Performing Arts
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Second City's Chicago comedy school to expandJul 21, 2014 11:00 pm - CHICAGO - The training center for Chicago's famous Second City comedy group is expanding. The Second City Training Center announced Tuesday that it will lease a former m...
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Ryerson Woods to host outdoor performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Jul 20, 2014 11:00 pm - Shakespeare aficionados and neophytes alike can relax among the lush vegetation and sound of crickets at Ryerson Woods in Riverwoods, on Aug. 1, 2 and 3, when Citadel Th...
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Weekend picks: Blake Shelton to rock Wrigley FieldJul 19, 2014 5:00 am - Country bash: Country star Blake Shelton headlines The Ten Times Crazier Tour with Dan + Shay, The Band Perry and Neal McCoy on Saturday, at Wrigley Field, 1060 W. A...
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Gift Theatre tries Shakespeare with modern 'Othello'Jul 18, 2014 6:00 am - As The Gift Theatre makes clear in its modern, stripped-down production of William Shakespeare's “Othello,” something more than jealousy and racial prejudice fuel this t...
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Steppenwolf's comic 'Qualms' flirts with questions of sexual freedomJul 18, 2014 5:30 am - Regular readers of Dan Savage's syndicated sex advice column Savage Love know all too well about the many dicey issues of intimacy and intolerance explored in "The Qualm...
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'Laughter' falls short of its comic inspirationJul 18, 2014 5:00 am - Young playwrights are often admonished to avoid writing about other writers. That's because it can be difficult to compellingly dramatize all the tedious work that goes ...
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Broadway lights will be dimmed in Stritch's memoryJul 18, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - Broadway marquees will be dimmed in memory of a Tony- and Emmy-winning actress who epitomized New York and the theater world. Elaine Stritch died Thursday at ...
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Broadway star joins local favorite for Drury Lane mysteryJul 18, 2014 1:01 am - Drury Lane Theatre in Oak Brook announced casting for its Chicago area premiere of "The Game's Afoot," Ken Ludwig's award-winning suspense comedy from 2011. Drury L...
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Theater events: Three Brothers revives 'Crimes'Jul 18, 2014 1:00 am - Three Bros ‘Crimes' Three Brothers Theatre revives “Crimes of the Heart,” Beth Henley's dramedy about three estranged sisters who return to their Mississippi home f...
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Theater performances come to Lake Zurich High SchoolJul 17, 2014 11:00 pm - Cricket Theatre Company presents "Once Upon a Mattress" at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, and Friday, July 25, and "Legally Blonde" at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 26, and 2 p.m. Su...